How was Viking society typically organised?

[hopies]

How was Viking society typically organised?
taking into account gender roles and thier domestic arragements.

Tell me what you think/know

No cutting tests please.

hopies

[quentin]

Hopies, can you give us some idea of the date and the geographical location that you want to know about please?

'The Viking age' is a modern term, with very fuzzy context, for a period of very high social change in northern europe.
ie
850ad around Birka
and
1000ad in York
have next to nothing in common.

Cheers
Q

[Robbo]

Such a seemingly simple question. Yet it requires such a complex answer!

Seriously, there are books, volumes, about this.

What aspects would you like to know about the culture even?

Women's role in a typical freedman's home? His role? Their diet? Manner of cooking, other "common" house hold chores? Their clothes (used as a guideline for culture in many publications)? Their children's roles?

Craftsmen? Trade? Religion? Leadership? family life on a farm? Village?

What if we go up to someone of wealth, power or importance?

How were matters of Law or Lore resolved?

Get's worse still! The Danes are considered by many people (whodon't know better) to be viks. They handles things differently from the Norwegians, who did things differently to the Icelanders...who did things differently to the Norse people who'd settled near Northumberland (Northumbria?) and were intermingling with the saxons and gaels.

0.o Ummm...can I sit down and talk with you about aspect some time perhaps? I have NO clue about lots...but I know some and I'm happy to share.

Gods I'm going to regret that last sentence.